Intel Core i9-7920X with twelve cores will be available on August 28
Intel has announced that the Core i9-7920X with twelve cores will be released on August 28. The i9-7940X, i9-7960X and i9-7980XE, with fourteen, sixteen and eighteen cores respectively, will be available from September 25.
Intel has officially announced the release dates including all specifications, although the full specifications of Intel’s Core X-Series already appeared online at the end of July via a leaked image, which now appears to be authentic. The image already showed that the Core i9-7980XE will have a clock speed of 2.6GHz. The Euro prices of the processors have not yet been announced.
Intel unveiled the X-Series of processors for the hedt platform in late May, but then released only the type names and number of cores of the top four Skylake-X processors. With this platform, Intel is targeting gamers, VR users, overclockers and graphics professionals. It concerns seven processors of the Skylake-X generation and two chips based on Kaby Lake-X. The Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X processors with 4, 6, 8 or 10 cores have been on sale since June 26.
AMD announced its first two Ryzen Threadripper processors last week to compete with Intel’s high-end CPUs. The Threadripper 1950X has 16 cores and 32 threads with a speed of 3.4GHz and boost to 4GHz. The cheaper 1920X has 12 cores and 24 threads and runs at 3.5GHz with a boost to 4GHz as well. AMD is asking $999 and $799 respectively for the processors that come out in August.
Core i9-7980XE | Skylake-X | 18/36 | 2.6GHz/4.2GHz/4.4GHz | 24.75MB | 44 | ddr4-2666 | 165W | $1999 |
Core i9-7960X | Skylake-X | 16/32 | 2.8GHz/4.2GHz/4.4GHz | 22MB | 44 | ddr4-2666 | 165W | $1699 |
Core i9-7940X | Skylake-X | 14/28 | 3.1GHz/4.3GHz/4.4GHz | 19.25MB | 44 | ddr4-2666 | 165W | $1399 |
Core i9-7920X | Skylake-X | 12/24 | 2.9GHz/4.3GHz/4.4GHz | 16.5MB | 44 | ddr4-2666 | 140W | $1199 |
Core i9-7900X | Skylake-X | 10/20 | 3.3/4.3/4.5GHz | 13.75MB | 44 | ddr4-2666 | 140W | $999 |
Core i7-7820X | Skylake-X | 8/16 | 3.6GHz/4.3/4.5GHz | 11MB | 28 | ddr4-2666 | 140W | $599 |
Core i7-7800X | Skylake-X | 6/12 | 3.5/4.0GHz/- | 8.25MB | 28 | ddr4-2400 | 140W | $389 |
Core i7-7740X | Kaby Lake X | 4/8 | 4.3/4.5GHz/- | 8MB | 16 | ddr4-2666 | 112W | $339 |
Core i5-7640X | Kaby Lake X | 4/4 | 4.0/4.2GHz/- | 6MB | 16 | ddr4-2666 | 112W | $242 |